Blu-ray & DVD: Spotlight on a Murderer (1961) When terminally ill Count Hervé de Kerloquen (Pierre Brasseur) realises that his days are numbered, he retreats into a secret hiding place inside his castle. Learning of his supposed death, his family gather expecting great riches to be bestowed upon them, only to be told that they […]
DVD: Black Gunn (1972) If I was to read a review that simply said: “Black Gunn is a blaxploitation movie starring Jim Brown and Martin Landau” that would be enough right there and I’d be ordering it immediately. For those of you with similar tastes to myself, then skip down to the bottom of this […]
DVD: The Jerk, Too (1984) The Jerk, Too isn’t so much a sequel to the 1979 Steve Martin comedy classic The Jerk, but reimagines the story of Navin who sets out to travel from his humble family abode in the country to the big bright lights of Los Angeles. Apparently this was the pilot show […]
Blu-ray & DVD: The National Health (1973) The National Health intertwines the real life happenings on a male NHS ward where resources are low and death is not uncommon, with a fantasy soap opera world (entitled ‘Nurse Norton’s Affair’) in the same building, which has plush surroundings and everyone is miraculously cured, all wrapped up […]
Blu-ray: Aquarius (2016) Sônia Braga is a tour de force as the central character Clara, the last resident of Aquarius Apartments in Recife Brazil. Her stubborn refusal to sell up and move out brings her into conflict with the planners and developers who want her out of her very desirable beach front property. A running […]
Blu-ray & DVD: The Deadly Affair (1966) Charles Dobbs (James Mason…a man whose voice I could listen to all day) has an innocuous chat with Foreign Office employee Samuel Fennan (Robert Flemying) in a park, but hours later Fennan is found dead after an apparent suicide. Hobbs is not satisfied that is was indeed suicide […]
Blu-ray & DVD: Cops vs Thugs (1975) In 1963 Japan, a fragile peace exists between two rival Yakuza gangs that is overseen by hard boiled cop Kuno (Bunta Sugawara). Kuno is friends with gang leader Kenji (Hiroki Matsukata) and they often share information which is mutually beneficial to help keep the status quo. As you […]
Blu-ray & DVD: A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg (1972) Based on the play by Peter Nichols (who also wrote the screenplay for the movie) A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg tells the story of Bri (Alan Bates) and Sheila (Janet Suzman) who are parents to a severely disabled daughter. Their […]
Blu-ray: My Life As A Courgette (2016) 9 year old ‘Courgette’ (his nickname from his mother) is fatherless and lives in relative squalor with his alcoholic mother. When his solo attempt at amusing himself with empty beer cans that he collected from the litter filled floors goes horribly wrong, it results in the accidental death […]
Blu-ray & DVD: The Reckoning (1970) Michael ‘Mick’ Marler (Nicol Williamson) is one of the top men at Grenville. He’s devious and committed and no one would ever know he’s the son of poor working class Irish immigrants from Liverpool. He has it all; the job, the big car, amazing house, vacuous friends and the […]